By a 58 - 28 percent margin, New Jersey residents are cheering for the New York Yankees to
beat the Philadelphia Phillies in the World Series, according to a Quinnipiac University poll
released today. Only 14 percent are undecided.

The Bronx Bombers sweep every political, age, gender and regional group in the Garden
State except the South Jersey Philadelphia suburbs, where the Phillies lead 80 - 10 percent, the
independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University poll finds.

There is a gender gap as the Yankees lead 56 - 32 percent among men and 60 - 25 percent
among women.

"In New Jersey at World Series time it's root, root, root for the neighbors. Most of the
Garden State wants the team across the Hudson River to win. They like the Yankees. But in
the suburbs just across the Delaware from Philadelphia, they like the Phillies," said Maurice
Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.

"Women really like the Yankees. Don't the Phillies have any matinee idols to match
Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez?"

From October 21 - 26, Quinnipiac University surveyed 1,324 New Jersey adults, with a
margin of error of +/- 2.7 percentage points.

The Quinnipiac University Poll, directed by Douglas Schwartz, Ph.D., conducts public opinion
surveys in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Florida, Ohio and nationally as a public
service and for research.
For more data or RSS feed- http://www.quinnipiac.edu/polling.xml, call (203) 582-5201, or follow us on
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22. (All Adults) Who would you like to see win the World Series - the Yankees or
the Phillies?